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One of John and Adam’s pet rants on No Agenda revolves around the hysteria being generated for the swine flu and the vaccine that you WILL have to take under government orders, and then die after eating Monsanto-ized french fries. So, I decided to take a look around the Interwebitubes for signs of how people are reacting to it all. Here’s some of what I found. Click pics for more swiny goodness.
Swine flu cookies
The Swine Floozy (Tequila, 7up, Lime Juice, Bacon)
Swine flu cookies
Excellent headline for a story: Rupert Grint Gets Swine Flu And Doesn’t Even Die
Swine flu t-shirt and Achufy, the 2009 commemorative Mexican flu stuffed toy
The Swine Floozy (Tequila, 7up, Lime Juice, Bacon)
- Social Security numbers turn out to be very hackable. Yikes!
- Facebook doing $500 million.
- New iPod may have a camera inside!
- Nokia may do an Android phone too? Everyone is trying to get into the act.
- Washington Posts says the Palm Pre may not be selling that well.
- Toyota to do a plug-in Hybrid.
- IE to become number two any minute now.
- CompuServe is dead.
- Show sponsored by Squarespace.com code word TECH.
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Huffington Post – 7-6-09:
Even Fox News has started to turn on Sarah Palin. In the midst of a segment about the Alaska Governor’s battle against “liberal” attacks, Liz Trotta went off-message.
Frankly, “the woman is inarticulate, undereducated,” Trotta said, arguing that for once liberal criticism was “well-deserved.”
“I think all the liberal stylists … really have a case. She just begs for adjectives like flaky and wacky.” When pressed, she added, “We’re talking about somebody who, right from the get-go, has been a flashy person who gets into a lot of trouble and really has no credentials for any job.”
My favorite Palin slam from the video:
What do you think William F. Buckley would have thought about her as the standard bearer of the conservative party?
God, remember the good old days when conservatives found value in intelligence, reasoned discourse, and education?! If you think about it, Buckley’s party doesn’t even exist anymore.
The low-cost airline would charge passengers less on “bar stools” with seat belts around their waists.
Michael O’Leary, the chief executive, has already held talks with US plane manufacturer Boeing about designing an aircraft with standing room. He is now seeking approval from the Irish Aviation Authority before ordering a new fleet of carriers, according to The Sun.
A Ryanair spokesman told the newspaper: “If they approve it, we’ll be doing it.”
Mr O’Leary is reported to have got the idea from the Chinese airline Spring, which has put forward similar plans. It estimates space could be made for up to 50 per cent more passengers and costs could be cut by 20 per cent.
It is not the first time Ryanair has come up with a controversial proposal for cutting costs. Earlier this year Mr O’Leary suggested passengers could be charged £1 to use the on-board lavatories.
In an interview on BBC television he said that the low-cost airline was looking at the possibility of installing a coin slot on the lavatory door so that “people might actually have to spend a pound to spend a penny.”
Mr O’Leary also considered introducing a “fat tax” for overweight passengers.
This makes sense, since we are treated like cattle anyway.
While most in the US were celebrating the 4th of July, a Russian immigrant living in New Jersey was being held on federal charges of stealing top-secret computer trading codes from a major New York-based financial institution—that sources say is none other than Goldman Sachs.
The allegations, if true, are big news because the codes the accused man, Sergey Aleynikov, tried to steal is the secret code to unlocking Goldman’s automated stocks and commodities trading businesses. Federal authorities allege the computer codes and related-trading files that Aleynikov uploaded to a German-based website help this major “financial institution” generate millions of dollars in profits each year.
The platform is one of the things that apparently gives Goldman a leg-up over the competition when it comes to rapid-fire trading of stocks and commodities. Federal authorities say the platform quickly processes rapid developments in the markets and uses top secret mathematical formulas to allow the firm to make highly-profitable automated trades.
The criminal case has the potential to shed a light on the inner workings of an important profit center for Goldman and other Wall Street firms. The federal charges also raise serious questions about the safeguards Wall Street firms deploy to protect their proprietary trading systems.
La Parkita, Espectrito Jr: La Parkita, Espectrito Jr dead (photos) · Celebgalz.com — Headline of the week dept.
La Parkita and Espectrito Jr were two professional midget wrestlers in Mexico. La Parkita and Espectrito Jr were found dead in a cheap hotel room. Two women were seen leaving their hotel room prior to the discovery of the dead bodies.
La Parkita and Espectrito Jr may have been the victims of drugging and robbing. The women might have something to do with the deaths of La Parkita and Espectrito Jr. Authorities have suspected that La Parkita and Espectrito Jr may have died from drug overdose as their small statures could not take the dose of drugs that might have been safe for a normal sized adult.
Found by Chris Engler.
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Robert McNamara, who served as defense secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and was one of the top architects of the US war in Vietnam, died Monday, the Washington Post said. He was 93.
The deeply controversial McNamara, who served as head of the World Bank after stepping down from his Pentagon post at the height of the Vietnam war, died in his sleep at home in Washington, the daily reported, citing family members.
They did not give a cause of death, according to the Post.
McNamara oversaw the escalation of US war efforts in Vietnam from 1961 to 1968. He was also an early advocate of counter-insurgency operations, a key architect of Cold War nuclear policy, and an early pioneer of systems analysis in which he applied scientific and operations research to military planning, corporate operations and international finance.
He also had a brief but storied career as an executive at Ford, where as one of the automaker’s “Whiz Kids” he rose rapidly through the ranks, in 1960 becoming its first president outside the Ford family and transforming it into a post-World War II powerhouse.
Like Lucy…he has some ‘splainin’ to do.
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Malt-O-Meal, based in Minneapolis, is recalling Maple & Brown Sugar Instant Oatmeal sold in cartons and variety packs with best-if-used-by dates of June 30, 2009 to Oct. 28, 2010. The oatmeal is sold nationally under numerous brands.
This is not the biggest deal in the world of recalls of American food products that might kill you or your granny; but, it’s only been about fifteen months since the last salmonella scare courtesy of Malt-O-Meal.
Malt-0-Meal is voluntarily recalling unsweetened puffed rice and unsweetened puffed wheat cereals after it found salmonella in a product produced on March 24, 2008…
Privately held Malt-O-Meal said it found the source of the salmonella and applied corrective measures to ensure against a reoccurrence.
Uh-huh.
Big admission from Vice President Joe Biden today.
“The truth is, we and everyone else misread the economy,” Biden told me during our exclusive “This Week” interview in Iraq.
Biden acknowledged administration officials were too optimistic earlier this year when they predicted the unemployment rate would peak at 8 percent as part of their effort to sell the stimulus package. The national unemployment rate has ballooned to 9.5 percent in June — the worst in 26 years.
“The truth is, there was a misreading of just how bad an economy we inherited,” said Biden, who is leading the administration’s effort to implement it’s $787 billion economic stimulus plan.
“Now, that doesn’t — I’m not — it’s now our responsibility. So the second question becomes, did the economic package we put in place, including the Recovery Act, is it the right package given the circumstances we’re in? And we believe it is the right package given the circumstances we’re in,” he told me.
The vice president argued more time is needed for the stimulus to work.
“We misread how bad the economy was, but we are now only about 120 days into the recovery package,” he said. “The truth of the matter was, no one anticipated, no one expected that that recovery package would in fact be in a position at this point of having to distribute the bulk of money.”
Everyone misread the economy? I think not.
Read the transcript of the interview.
Britain’s new MI6 chief caught in Facebook scandal — This is just too funny. Why do adults even use Facebook?
THE new head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, is at the centre of a security breach after his wife published family holiday photographs and other personal details on the Facebook website.
DOH!Sir John, currently Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations, began his career with MI6 but has spent many years as a diplomat.
He is due to take up his post as chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, in charge of Britain’s spying operations abroad, in November.
But his wife’s posting on the social networking site has exposed potentially compromising details about where they live and work, their friends and where they go on holiday.
Found by Tracy Taylor.
 
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So what are they going to do with it when they’re finished with it? Nothing about this guy’s life has ever been normal, so this isn’t too much of a surprise.
Michael Jackson will be buried this week– without his brain. As his family tries to finalise details for the King of Pop’s funeral on Tuesday they have been told it will be held back for tests. They faced the grim choice of waiting up to three weeks for Jackson’s brain to be returned to them or go ahead and bury him without it – which they have decided to do.
Los Angeles Coroner’s spokesman Craig Harvey confirmed that neuropathology tests will be carried out to see if it holds any clues to the exact cause of his death. But the examination cannot begin until at least two weeks after the death when the brain has hardened sufficiently to slice it open.
Jackson died from a cardiac arrest at his Beverly Hills mansion on June 25 after a suspected overdose of painkillers.
Sources at the coroner’s office revealed that his brain was removed before his body was released to relatives the next day.
A forensic neuropathologist will test Jackson’s brain for, among other things, past drug use and whether he has suffered overdoses in the past. The brain can also show any past abuse of alcohol or if the deceased had suffered from any one of a number of diseases. The source said that removing the brain is the “only way to carry out the tests”.
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